DFA Global Core Plus Fixed Income Portfolio
DFA INVESTMENT DIMENSIONS GROUP INC
Fund classification
Classified from what the fund holds · as of 2026 Q2
DFA Global Core Plus Fixed Income Portfolio is an actively managed global bond fund.
- Asset class
- Bonds
- Region
- Global
- Management
- Actively managed
- Fund type
- Open-end fund
- Credit quality
- Investment grade
- Rate sensitivity
- Intermediate duration
Fund profile
As filed in the prospectus · 2026 Q1
The investment objective of the DFA Global Core Plus Fixed Income Portfolio (the Global Core Plus Fixed Income Portfolio or the Portfolio) is to maximize total returns from the universe of fixed income securities in which the Portfolio invests. Total return is comprised of income and capital appreciation.
The fund invests across U.S. and foreign fixed income securities, including government debt, corporate bonds, mortgage-backed securities, and lower-rated debt, with allocations to credit and term premiums adjusted based on the manager's expectations of incremental returns from credit risk and maturity extension. The fund targets a weighted average duration within one year below to six months above the Bloomberg Global Aggregate Bond Index (hedged to USD) and will invest at least 80% of assets in fixed income securities. Because the fund's exposure to credit and term premiums depends on the manager's expectations of future returns, actual allocations and performance will diverge from a passive benchmark.
| Share class | Gross | Net |
|---|---|---|
| C000196746 | 0.24% | 0.23% |
Net is what a holder pays after the adviser's contractual waiver; gross is before it. A waiver can expire.
Portfolio turnover 44.00% · as of 2026 Q1
Allocation
Asset groups · long / short shown separately, never netted · 2026 Q2
| Bonds | 96.92% |
| Securitized | 9.38% |
| Cash & short-term | 2.83% |
| Stocks | 2.77% |
| Derivatives | -0.51% |
These positions come to 111.40% of the fund's net assets. This counts only what the fund reported holding — the holdings disclosure covers assets, not liabilities such as borrowings — so it is not expected to reconcile to 100%.
The outer band is exposure held short — written against the portfolio rather than part of it, which is why it sits outside the ring and why the two are never netted into one figure.
Derivatives are shown at market value, not notional exposure.
Sector allocation
The same holdings as Allocation above, grouped by market sector instead of asset type · as of 2026 Q2
| Government | 29.1% |
| International | 17.1% |
| Other | 11.1% |
| Financials | 8.4% |
| 12 smaller | 34.4% |
Government, Securitized and Cash are non-corporate buckets; International is foreign holdings we don’t sector-classify, and Other is the residual (held funds, unresolved names).
Latest quarter
What changed since the fund's previous filing
Largest new: UMBS, TBA ×5, Government National Mortgage Association ×2, Japan Government Thirty Year Bonds
Largest exited: UMBS, TBA ×4, United States Treasury ×2, Government National Mortgage Association, U.K. Gilts
Return profile
Total return as filed — price change plus distributions reinvested · trailing figures to Apr 2026
Debt profile
What this fund holds — value-weighted across its bond and securitized long positions · as of 2026-04-30
Share of the fund's debt by how its coupon behaves — the fact that decides whether a rate move reaches this portfolio at all.
| Fixed rate | 91.5% |
| Floating rate | 8.5% |
Share of the fund's debt value in each maturity band, shortest first.
| <1y | 2.5% |
| 1-3y | 4.4% |
| 3-5y | 9.9% |
| 5-10y | 54.1% |
| 10y+ | 29.2% |
Based on what filers reported; a filer that never reported a flag also reads as none.
Risk profile
Interest-rate and credit-spread sensitivity, both in years · as of 2026Q2
Most of this fund’s sensitivity is to interest rates, with credit spreads carrying nearly as much.
Where the loss would come from. The two shocks are the same size, so this is the balance of the fund's two sensitivities rather than a bet on one moving more.
| Interest rates | 53% |
| Credit spreads | 47% |
Filers report the impact of a 0.01% move only, so the total is our own scaling of that one number and overstates the loss on most bonds — read it as approximate, never as precise. The two sensitivities overlap rather than add up: they measure the same positions against different shocks, which is why the durations above are shown side by side and never summed.
Share of the fund's spread duration carried by each credit tier.
| Investment grade | +5.51 yr |
| High yield | +0.45 yr |
Share of duration at each point, shortest first. A positive figure loses value when spreads widen; a negative one offsets — a credit hedge.
| 3 mo | 0.01 yr | 0% |
| 1 yr | 0.25 yr | 4% |
| 5 yr | 2.43 yr | 36% |
| 10 yr | 3.66 yr | 54% |
| 30 yr | 0.42 yr | 6% |
| 3 mo | 0.01 yr | 0% |
| 1 yr | 0.26 yr | 4% |
| 5 yr | 2.36 yr | 40% |
| 10 yr | 3.02 yr | 51% |
| 30 yr | 0.31 yr | 5% |
The two bands measure the same positions against different shocks and do not add — a Treasury carries rate duration and no spread duration, a floating-rate credit the reverse. Rate tenors are also summed across every currency the fund discloses.
Show the numbers
| Tenor | Rate yrs | IG yrs | HY yrs | IG $/bp | HY $/bp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 mo | +0.01 | +0.01 | +0.00 | $2.1k | $417 |
| 1 yr | +0.25 | +0.22 | +0.04 | $64.1k | $11.5k |
| 5 yr | +2.43 | +2.17 | +0.19 | $633.1k | $54.2k |
| 10 yr | +3.66 | +2.83 | +0.20 | $823.2k | $57.3k |
| 30 yr | +0.42 | +0.28 | +0.03 | $82.7k | $8.1k |
Dollar change per 1bp of spread movement, as filed and sign-anchored. A blank cell was not filed; a zero was.
Duration contribution in years, summing to the fund's 6.76 yr.
This is where the fund's rate exposure sits, not its currency risk — most international bond funds hedge the currency back to dollars, and the size of those hedges is not in the filing. Tenors are also summed across curves, so a 5-year JPY point and a 5-year USD point are added together.
Holdings
By % of NAV · equity positions carry filed share counts · every resolvable issuer links to its company page
| Ticker | Issuer | %NAV | Reported price | Value | Shares |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Dimensional Holdings Inc. | 2.83% | — | $82.51M | — |
| — | The DFA Investment Trust Company | 2.77% | $11.57 | $80.74M | 7.0M |
| — | UMBS, TBA6.00% · due 2056-05-01 | 2.29% | — | $66.61M | — |
| — | UMBS, TBA2.50% · due 2056-05-01 | 2.09% | — | $60.97M | — |
| — | UMBS, TBA2.00% · due 2056-05-01 | 1.76% | — | $51.17M | — |
| — | EXXON MOBIL CORPORATION0.83% · due 2032-06-26 | 1.62% | — | $47.20M | — |
| — | CAISSE FRANCAISE DE FIN3.13% · due 2033-07-20 | 1.24% | — | $36.10M | — |
| — | PROVINCE OF ALBERTA3.95% · due 2035-06-01 | 1.11% | — | $32.23M | — |
| — | United States Treasury3.80% floating · due 2026-07-31 | 1.06% | — | $31.01M | — |
| — | VISA INC3.13% · due 2033-05-15 | 1.06% | — | $30.95M | — |
Reported price is the fund's own reported value divided by its own reported shares at 2026-04-30 — not a live quote, and not what the fund paid.
Top 10 positions are 17.84% of net assets, top 25 30.25%, across 398 issuers.
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